Whoops! The Kung Fu Panda franchise has pulled in more than $1 billion at the box office, but one of its lead stars doesn’t even know the type of animal he plays. Dustin Hoffman made an appearance on the Today show on Tuesday, January 26, to talk about the upcoming third installment of the beloved animated film, in which he reprises his role as the wise Master Shifu.

“I read it and when I finished it, I said, ‘That’s the best script I’ve ever read, and I’m not going to do it,’” he revealed. “I think I had a problem with success. I turned Woody Allen down. I turned Schindler’s List down. I turned [Federico] Fellinidown, I turned [Ingmar] Bergman down.”

And despite his six-decade-long career, Hoffman doesn’t feel like a star.

“I finally have a sense of myself of priorities,” he said. “It doesn’t embarrass me to do good. I wasn’t afraid of being a star. [But] I did not deserve it.”